I am running open SUSE 11.4 with KDE and Thunderbird. My current Thunderbird version is 3.1.20 and I am getting a message on it from Mozilla that it is no longer being supported as od April 24th. I am well aware that the current version of Thunderbird is 11.xx, but there doesn’t seem to be any way for me to update using YAST and the software repositories.as the 3.1.20 version is the only one shown. I do have the Mozilla Build repository enabled.
I do not want to upgrade to a newer version of SUSE at this point, but don’t want to be left out in the cold on apps either.
I can download the tarball from Mozilla, but have reservations about trying to install it without YAST.
Can anyone offer any help?
After selecting thunderbird in YAST, you did click on the “versions” tab, right?
Also, I always got new versions from the “updates” repo.
YAST > Software Management > View > Repositories > OpenSUSE BuildService - Mozilla
On 2012-04-07 20:26, cesorensen wrote:
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> After selecting thunderbird in YAST, you did click on the “versions”
> tab, right?
There are none except 3.1.x in 11.4 unless you use extra repos.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-04-07 19:06, oldpopsie wrote:
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> I am running open SUSE 11.4 with KDE and Thunderbird. My current
> Thunderbird version is 3.1.20 and I am getting a message on it from
> Mozilla that it is no longer being supported as od April 24th. I am well
> aware that the current version of Thunderbird is 11.xx, but there
> doesn’t seem to be any way for me to update using YAST and the software
> repositories.as the 3.1.20 version is the only one shown. I do have the
> Mozilla Build repository enabled.
The package maintainer reads the openSUSE mail list, so if you ask there
you could get a response from him 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Am 08.04.2012 01:08, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 2012-04-07 20:26, cesorensen wrote:
>>
>> After selecting thunderbird in YAST, you did click on the “versions”
>> tab, right?
>
> There are none except 3.1.x in 11.4 unless you use extra repos.
>
Oldpopsie says to have the mozilla repo enabled, which looks suspicious
since I also have it and I run TB 11 on my 11.4.
So it is strange not to see it in the versions tab.
Please run the command
zypper lr -d
and post the output in code tags to see if you really have the correct
mozilla repo enabled.
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Here’s what zypper told me…
#zypper up MozillaThunderbird
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
There is an update candidate for 'MozillaThunderbird', but it is from different vendor. Use 'zypper install MozillaThunderbird-11.0.1-4.1.x86_64' to install this candidate.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
# zypper install MozillaThunderbird-11.0.1-4.1.x86_64
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following package is going to be upgraded:
MozillaThunderbird
The following package is going to change vendor:
MozillaThunderbird openSUSE -> obs://build.opensuse.org/mozilla
1 package to upgrade, 1 to change vendor.
Overall download size: 17.0 MiB. After the operation, additional 10.1 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Retrieving package MozillaThunderbird-11.0.1-4.1.x86_64 (1/1), 17.0 MiB (43.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: MozillaThunderbird-11.0.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm [done (218.8 KiB/s)]
Installing: MozillaThunderbird-11.0.1-4.1 [done]